Esther McVey advises The Samaritans. Why is nobody making the obvious comparison?
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Rimmer (played by Chris Barrie), the incompetent chicken soup vending machine technician, managed to kill the entire crew of the mining ship Red Dwarf (barring his nemesis, Dave Lister (Craig Charles)) by exposing them to lethal radiation. He denied that it was his fault.
Ms McVey, was a part of a team of Tories who devised policies to deprive sick and disabled benefit claimants of the payments to which they were due, leading to thousands of deaths – many of which have been recorded on This Site. Like the rest of the Tories, she denies that it is her fault.
Now we find that Ms McVey is a member of The Samaritans – as was Mr Rimmer.
In the Red Dwarf episode The Last Day, he has the following conversation with Lister:
Rimmer: I used to be in the Samaritans.
Lister: I know. For one morning.
Rimmer: I couldn’t take any more.
Lister: I don’t blame you. You spoke to five people and they all committed suicide. I wouldn’t mind, but one was a wrong number! He only phoned up for the cricket scores.
Rimmer: Well, it’s not my fault everyone chose that day to jump out of buildings. It made the papers, you know. “Lemming Sunday,” they called it.
The announcement that Ms McVey had been named Work and Pensions Secretary, on January 8, received a similar reception from the people of the UK. It wasn’t quite “Lemming Monday” – I’m not aware of anyone actually taking their own life (and I know lemmings don’t actually behave as they did in that old Disney movie) – but I understand that many had to be persuaded out of it.
The operative question now is whether she has any other traits similar to the Red Dwarf character.
I suppose we’ll find out if she turns up at Caxton House in a blue Gingham dress, saying from now on she’ll take all her advice from her favourite sockpuppet, Mr Flibble.
She says people having to go to foodbanks is ‘positive’. She justified huge cuts to disability benefits by saying that ‘bodies heal’, and she used misleading statistics to ‘stoke up antagonism’ towards disabled benefit claimants. Does this sound like the kind of person who should be advising a major charity which supports people in severe emotional distress?
And yet that is the case. It has been revealed that Esther McVey, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, and cheerleader for some of the most brutal welfare cuts of recent years, is an advisor to the charity Samaritans
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Funny thing is that I’ve always thought of Jeremy Hunt as Rimmer – seriously put an “H” on his forehead and there is little difference in looks or attitude.
But you make a few good points about McVey.
Thank you for this information. Sickened, shocked and feeling betrayed. I thought it had to be a joke. albeit a sick joke. This person who has caused so much despair being involved with the Samaritans in any capacity fills me with horror. How the families and friends of those who could not face carrying on living feel I cannot imagine. Told they are fit for work when they are obviously not, vilified as ‘shirkers’ by a lickspittle press, left destitute, humiliated by cruel government policies. I have become disillusioned with many charities, especially those whose CEO’s are paid massive salaries and perks and those who cosy up to this government but this takes the biscuit. I e mailed the Samaritans imploring them for an explanation – no reply as yet. Would I turn to the Samaritans with this person on the Board or an Advisor – NO. Would I donate to Samaritans – NO.
Grateful to you for the article, without your work and others like you I would not have known.
I have just emailed the Samaritans and told them I am no longer a supporter.
By the Tory scum get more evil by the day, I would not blame some one that realy sorted them out.
The tory have to go , misery came with them in 2010 , like a shadow over all that had to deal with their policy of absolute hatred , they came as a fascist seed which was planted on british soil , they have destroyed many lives , welfare reform was a deadly cull and they are still at it in jobcentres all over the country , DWP staff go along with the tory policy to keep their jobs , the tory made themselves our gp family doctors with atos and maximus , this is a fascist seed that needs to be stopped from growing,
Tory activists ” test the chav,s as you would animals”
Gas them
sterilize them
RING ANY BELLS !
The pure hatred to anyone who does not follow the tory way is dangerous , the seed of fascism is planted , it must not grow .